Verb specificity (Was: Re: Natural Order of Events)

2009/1/28 Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets <tsela.cg@...>

>
> That's really interesting. I know about classifiers in the context of
> counting, but didn't know that such things existed also in other contexts.
> At the same time, English does ride or drive, depending on the vehicle,
> while French uses a single word "conduire" (which we actually don't use
> that
> much anyway).
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>
That's interesting, I didn't know that. All the French textbooks teach
"conduire" as the verb to use. So what do you say for, say, "I'm driving to
work today"?

Eugene

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